When the US wants to ouster a South American socialist leader, historically they either just straight up have them killed - like, with bullets - or they buy a massive political opposition and then threaten to kill anyone who votes against them - like, with bullets. This? This was just farking cancer.

if you were in the position to kill someone by giving them cancer (with prolonged exposure to carcinogens?) wouldn't you just use the position to just straight up poison them? Or blow them up or shoot them with bullets? Or use something like polonium?

A Dark Evil Omen:When the US wants to ouster a South American socialist leader, historically they either just straight up have them killed - like, with bullets - or they buy a massive political opposition and then threaten to kill anyone who votes against them - like, with bullets. This? This was just farking cancer.

I once knew a guy who claimed the CIA gave Bob Marley cancer because he was a threat. He also claimed that they put microchips in all the dollars so they can track our spending with satellites and that AIDS is actually caused by the drugs that treat AIDS. It's all a big scam.

Rapmaster2000:I once knew a guy who claimed the CIA gave Bob Marley cancer because he was a threat. He also claimed that they put microchips in all the dollars so they can track our spending with satellites and that AIDS is actually caused by the drugs that treat AIDS. It's all a big scam.

Just to review bio 101 for everyone in the thread before these kinds of posts get out of hand, cancer doesn't actually work that way. It's a form of statistical biological failure, even if you load up all the risk factors you can find, any kind of exposure that doesn't have a chance of killing your target outright will not push the change of cancer formation beyond a crapshoot, making it the single lamest way to attempt an assassination ever.

Especially when, with the kind of continued, easy access that kind of low-level, continued exposure that kind of thing implies, buying the uniform of a local political enemy, walking up to the front door, and giving him twenty or thirty rounds of acute lead poisoning while loudly proclaiming your allegiance to insurgent faction X that's conveniently also a US enemy, and selling that, is by comparison almost effortless.

Just to review bio 101 for everyone in the thread before these kinds of posts get out of hand, cancer doesn't actually work that way. It's a form of statistical biological failure, even if you load up all the risk factors you can find, any kind of exposure that doesn't have a chance of killing your target outright will not push the change of cancer formation beyond a crapshoot, making it the single lamest way to attempt an assassination ever.

Especially when, with the kind of continued, easy access that kind of low-level, continued exposure that kind of thing implies, buying the uniform of a local political enemy, walking up to the front door, and giving him twenty or thirty rounds of acute lead poisoning while loudly proclaiming your allegiance to insurgent faction X that's conveniently also a US enemy, and selling that, is by comparison almost effortless.